Apparently believing there is a great big fairy no one has ever seen (but they're pretty sure it lives in the sky) whose ass you'd better kiss or you'll go to hell isn't silly. Also noted: Big sky fairy is quite the hothouse flower; too scared to manifest itself here & now on earth & deal w/ those who don't follow its instructions. You just wait, Mr. Doubting Thomas; once you're dead the big fairy will show you alright!! (I can't tell you how scared I am.)“We also look silly to the rest of the world, I think,
if we’re all fighting with each other.”
Not just the Jesus freaks, of course, all of whom, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Prot., or even less-connected-to-reality offshoots qualify as one of three "great" religions/schisms that all claim to worship the same big fairy, yet in actuality worship the vaguely historical figures Moses, Jesus H. Christ & Muhammad. And don't think for a hot minute that the other two cults aren't just as divided as Jesus's chumps. It's almost as if the entire thing were a work of fiction (a fairy tale, even) & every so often someone comes up w/ fan-fiction that is even more successful w/ some chumps than the original lies were.
Other Historical Horseshit:
From the same folks who brought you Pearl Harbor, the Toyopet:1957Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. opens in Hollywood
In the mid-1950s, there were very few small cars on the road in America. People had plenty of disposable income for the first time in decades; gas was cheap; and American car companies were churning out enormous, elaborately be-finned models like the Ford Thunderbird and the Plymouth Fury. But those cars were not that easy to drive or park (especially, some people believed, for women, many of whom were learning to drive for the first time) and buying more than one tended to be too expensive for an ordinary middle-class family. As a result, foreign small-car manufacturers saw an opportunity. Volkswagen, for instance, exported more than 100,000 of its small, efficient Beetles to the United States in 1956 and the next year Toyota brought the Toyopet to Hollywood.
Though the car had been an overnight sensation in Japan, particularly among taxi drivers, it was a flop in the United States: It could barely meet California’s standards for roadworthiness, it guzzled extraordinary amounts of gas and oil and when it traveled on the freeway, it tended to shake violently, overheat and stall without much warning. Meanwhile, most Americans were simply too big to fit comfortably in its tiny cabin.
1952
The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
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